Chris McCoy
Co-creator
STORE Cloud
Lifemap
1/ Grows up in a small town in SW Washington with a single mom and two brothers
2/ Starts first business at age 6 (selling hand picked plums)
3/ Trades for a Jackie Robinson rookie card (it helped pay for college) at 10
4/ Learns to program "Print" on the Apple IIe in gifted learning program DEEP at 11
5/ Discovers that 4th cousin won two Nobel Peace Prizes at 12 (Linus Pauling)
6/ Moves in with Grandpa at 15
7/ Elected a Washington DECA state officer at 16
8/ Throws 90 mph, becomes a national baseball recruit at 17
9/ Elected Washington DECA State President at 18
10/ Lifelong neck injury shows up in baseball; fastball drops from 92+ mph to 80
11/ Signs to play baseball with the University of Washington (alongside older brother)
12/ Wins National DECA Presidency at 18
13/ Takes a gap year to serve as National President; moves to Seattle at 19
14/ Enrolls in UW and red shirts on the baseball team at 19
15/ Retires from Pac-12 baseball to pursue entrepreneurship at 19
16/ Starts a business teaching the science of throwing a baseball at 20
17/ Publishes a book and DVD; builds it into a $100k/year business from dorm room at 20
18/ Co-founds I Love Baseball, a non-profit that promotes education to young baseball players in the Dominican Republic at 21
19/ Sells e-commerce and baseball training business to start a social network for the history of sports at 22
20/ Moves the business to Silicon Valley to better understand data networks at 26
21/ Experiments with programming Bitcoin as the in-app, API-based payments solution in a social network at 29
22/ Files for a crypto-based wallet patent at 31
23/ Starts Data4America, a nonpartisan nonprofit exploring the intersection of policy with data at 32
24/ Recognized by Marc Andreessen as one of "55 Unknown Rockstars in Tech" at 32
25/ Builds up the sports social network to 4mm data networks across 40mm points of verified data and then hands over the keys to a new CEO at 32
26/ Starts Footprint, a chat system for two-tier business systems like franchises and chains at 33
27/ Married at 33
28/ Realizes that zero-fee, micro-based payments could transform communications for HQ2Bs. That research leads to the creation of STORE ($STORE), a zero-fee public blockchain at 34.
29/ Begins designing a decentralized democracy of checks and balances at 34
30/ Begins designing BlockFin, a two-tier BFT consensus algorithm that decentralizes edge computing; files a patent for it at 35
31/ Twin daughters are born at 35
32/ Begins designing datacoins (tokenized data) at 36
33/ Begins designing tokenized compute at 37